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This week Ghostscript, an open source postscript processor, released version 8.60. Ghostscript releases are not normally newsworthy since they are frequent and incremental, but this release is ...
Ghostscript is used pretty much everywhere and has been for a very long time, and several vendors, including ImageMagick, Red Hat and Ubuntu are impacted. Affected packages like GIMP ...
A vulnerability in Ghostscript, a widely used interpreter for Adobe PostScript and PDF page description languages, could allow attackers to remotely take control of vulnerable systems -- and there ...
Ghostscript can load Postscript, PDF, and SVG, and it has a feature from Postscript that has been a continual security issue: the %pipe% command.
Ghostscript, which was originally developed in the late 80s, is distributed for free under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This license permits developers to study, ...
Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy has exposed a new vulnerability in Ghostscript, a widely used suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems’ PostScript and Portable ...
IT security researchers have discovered five security vulnerabilities in Ghostscript. Attackers can, for example, bypass the sandbox and execute arbitrary code. A proof-of-concept exploit is ...
Artifex, makers of Ghostscript (it's basically a nice, open source PDF viewer) also makes something called muPDF, a tiny PDF viewer for mobile devices.
Fortunately, Ubuntu provides a complicated, but efficient method to reduce the size of your PDFs using the standard Ghostscript library of command line utilities. While other, ...